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Der Fuehrer: Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) by Konrad Heiden

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  https://www.amazon.com/ Fuehrer-Hitlers-Rise-Power/dp/ 0897603966   I once owned this book and found it interesting but not so relative. Now, with an American president exhibiting strong signs of mental and personality traits attributable to Hitler, I want to find it again.  narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and even psychosis Below is a review from Amazon which I found very interesting and relative to today's authoritarian politics. A warning to all! David Drury 5.0 out of 5 stars Fertile Soil for Nazi Seed Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2016 It has become an internet truism that as an online discussion proceeds forward the probability of someone comparing their opponents to Nazi's or Hitler approaches 1 (Godwin's Rule). This adage of course gives birth to another (I'll call it Viam Dimittere Godwin's Rule)... that after the mention of Godwin's Rule in an online discussion, the likelihood of all participants di...

Capitol On Lockdown

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  January 06, 2021 I don't know which was worse to witness today, the assault on our nation's Capitol by Trump supporters or the Trumpublican legislators who were willing to obstruct and delay the electoral college vote count. Both believe the absurd, and both were willing to commit atrocities to please a sick man. The elephant in the room is why the security detail for the Capitol was unprepared to handle the protesters and why it took so long for backup. I wouldn't be surprised to find out the siege on the Capitol was planned and coordinated by supporters and legislators following the orders of a lame-duck resident. Call it an  Inside Job or a Fix! What people of color rightfully take away from this day of national reckoning is how white privilege gives persons with white skin entitlement to assemble with violent intent and unlawfully attack our nation's governing bodies without repercussions.  Picture the same attack you saw today, substitute Black Lives Matter or La...

Fear vs Faith (from The Meaning of Faith)

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  December 24, 2020 Fear does not reveal its disastrous consequences to the full until it colors one’s thoughts about the source and destiny of life. Folk work joyfully at a picture-puzzle so long as they believe that the puzzle can be put together, that it was meant, completed, to compose a picture, and that their labor is an effort made in reasonable hope. Fear hides its damaging consequences until it negatively convinces one’s thoughts about life’s power and purpose. As long as I believe all parts to a puzzle are in the box, I will work with all reasonable hope and joy to completely assemble the puzzle’s picture. But if they begin to fear that they are being fooled, that the puzzle is a hoax and never can be pieced together anywhere by anyone, how swiftly that suspicion will benumb their work! So joyful living depends on man’s conviction that this life is not a hapless accident, that a good purpose binds it all together, and that our labor for righteousness is not expended on a ...

Georgia Senate Runoff Election

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  December 14, 2020 VOTE To Change Senate Majority  Tuesday, January 5, 2021 Eyes On Georgia " It's Time To Move On " This Blog Supports  Raphael Warnock  and  Jon Ossoff Early In-Person Voting Begins Today

Justice

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  December 10, 2020 "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." It is long past time for all Americans to condemn republican leaders complicit in attempts to de-legitimize the 2020 Election. Their support of false and baseless Trump conspiracy theories is injurious to Democracy and the American way of life. It’s injurious to those citizens misled by lies as well as those standing up to defend truth.   So, what's at stake if our national elections and  political institutions  are no longer legitimate and chaos ensues?  Empires fall, Civilizations die out and/or are wiped out, species mutate and planets go dark. . . Justice - "The administering of deserved punishment or reward" 5.  Government corruption and political instability If Rome’s sheer size made it difficult to govern, ineffective and inconsistent leadership only served to magnify the problem. Being the Roman emperor had always been a particularly dan...

Lucille Bridges - We Salute You

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  November 11, 2020 Today, After reading an  Associated Press article  of the passing of Lucille Bridges, I only felt it fitting to post my thoughts on it.  Lucille Bridges was a mother who allowed her six year old daughter Ruby to be one of the first black children to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. To be chosen as one of only a few black children to participate in early desegregated schooling required a bright and fearless child. But imagine the courage it took a mother and father to expose their little girl to the ugliness and potential violence of Louisiana white racism in 1960. Lucille Bridges was that mother. Driven by a vision of equal opportunity for her daughter, a vision backed by the 1954, U.S. Supreme Court ruling on separate but equal schooling as unconstitutional. Lucille Bridges, a mother who after proudly walking with her daughter on that first day (Nov. 14, 1960) would leave her in the hands of U.S. Marshals for ...

A Nation Giddy With Relief

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  November 07, 2020 When the Wicked Witch of the East suffered her tragic ending, the cowered citizens of the land  came out from their hiding places in disbelief . Once convinced the reign of tyranny had come to an end, the citizens were overcome with giddy celebration of song and dance. Today's Election Results finally brought the house down on Donald Trump and his wicked administration, setting off dancing and celebrations in cities across the nation. An era of tyrannical leadership over the land of the free and home of the brave will come to an end on January 20, 2021 (Inauguration Day).  Celebrations recognizing the end of this incurable era and the beginning of truth & hope were a beauty to behold today. Citizens of the United States gathered in the streets, in parks, in civic centers, waving and dancing as if a long fought war had ended;  V-J Day 1945  revisited.  On Inauguration Day, President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harr...